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Beowulf: A Research Guide: Criticism & History

Picture of a viking ship

Beowulf Sails to Denmark, from Stories of Beowulf, by H.E. Marshall, 1908, illustrations by J. R. Skelton. Public domain. Source: Wikimedia Commons


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Databases: Literature & History

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